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turnturtle
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Topic: WS/Olympic Sailing Open letter and petition Posted: 03 May 18 at 7:18pm |
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I think the RYA might treat dinghy clubs with even more contempt... focusing on motor and yachts stuff only
But I do agree with the sentiments above, even at the risk of a worse outlook for U.K. dinghy sailing |
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 7:25pm | ||
Thing is though whilst the Squad system would probably collapse the support for grass roots sailing would be at best totally unchanged because there would be no more money. More likely we'd find that loss of non financial spinoff from the training programme would affect clubs. Then there's all the extra status and co-operation you get from local authorities and companies because its a high profile Olympic sport: you could kiss goodbye to all that too...
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L123456
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 7:53pm | ||
Indeed, plus the Olympic gravel train funds the companies we buy from, many of them wouldn’t survive off what grass roots sailing spends. The financial impact would be significant.
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423zero
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 8:38pm | ||
Not sure on this one, I do watch olympic sailing when it is on tv.
Personal dislike of RYA appears to colour some posters views. I can't see how being "in" olympics or "out" will affect my club and it's problems.
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turnturtle
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 8:45pm | ||
The flip side is that a bit of healthy market consolidation might be just the kick up the arse dinghy sailing needs to get back to promoting class racing at local level. |
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Cirrus
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 9:22pm | ||
Olympic sailing represents a small sub-group of competitive sailing categories in any event. There is limited 'trickle-down' at best in terms of the general publics perception from the five ringed (TV) circus .. even if done extremely well every 4 years. The disproportionate focus on the income streams available to national sailing bodies arising from and alongside the Olympic process arguably distorts their general policy, direction and approach. This is partly because of the IOC ethos and its overall impact on world sport it is true and sailing is not the only sport to be influenced and 'modified'. In summary - a mixed blessing ?
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L123456
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 03 May 18 at 9:45pm | ||
Would be nice to think so but I just think we’d end up like everywhere else where adult sailing gravitates to keelboats.
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turnturtle
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 18 at 5:26am | ||
Maybe at the coast, but I think this happens a lot anyway. Inland it’s a different story... keelboats are a PITA.
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PeterG
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 18 at 8:34am | ||
I would think that unless there was a major shift in attitudes to sports funding support loss of sailing from the Olympics would be entirely a negative for sailing. Sports funding is nearly entirely targeted at medals. If sailing losses the possibility of medals the funds will go elsewhere, they won't go to supporting clubs. And clubs would probably find they had less access to grants for sail training equipment etc.
I'm no fan of Olympic sailing, or the impact on non squad sailing, but short of a major rethink on sports funding priorities clubs are much better off with sailing in the Olympics than not.
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DiscoBall
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 May 18 at 8:40am | ||
I don't think the petition mentions, but the other part of the new proposal is short-handed offshore race. So boats costing upwards of 150000 quid, that's not going to expose the sport to any ridicule at all...
Jim - there are plenty of grant giving bodies giving money to non-competitive activities. Much of the growth in new sports (Climbing, SUP etc) has no reference to the Olympics or governing bodies. I think there was a survey (maybe sport England?) that indicated that for many people the association with competition and elite sport is actually a turnoff. |
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